Teacher Comment

Hi Tara.

Thank you so much for your help this morning constructing our email to Environment Southland to find out if we can help at Seaward Bush.  It takes a bit to write an email - and all your suggestions were polite and to the point!  I hope we hear back from them soon.  I’m so pleased you enjoyed making elephant toothpaste today.  The expression on your face in the photos Jenni took was of pure excitment!  Great that you have included these on your blog!  Well done on using your time so wisely today and keeping on top of your workload.  Katie.

Elephant Toothpaste.

Today I buddied  up with Violet to do a science experiment. Jenni helped us too of course - we couldn't do it alone! First we had to get a measuring cylinder, then we went to over to the tarpaulin and Jenni put some hydrogen peroxide in.  Then we went back to the table and put some active yeast in as well.  Then we put hot water in and mixed it altogether.  Then we went back to the tarpaulin and we put some liquid soap in the measuring cylinder and 4 little drops of food colouring.  Then it EXPLODED out of the measuring cylinder!  It looked like a big volcano with lava all around it.  It was really cool!

The kakapo

My Mural

Emily and I made a mural just a sketch of Oreti beach in New Zealand  in the sky was lots of birds. Out the back was the Takatimu and the Remarkable mountains and a forest. We had kiwi, an oyster catcher, a ocean, sand and some birds on rocks.
 I was really fun and I hope we can paint it up on a wall in town.

Lilly Pad Art !

On Thursday the  first week of school  I made lilly pad art with Katie it was really fun. First we watched a clip of Monet  he was a very famous artist  he made very  famous paintings in the clip this man said that Monet used Tashes in his paintings. First  I made a blue background  then I made the trees then the dots for the lilly pads then you get the white paint and do five strokes on each dot then put some red paint in the middle and your done! 

Reflection at Enrich

Hi! It's me again, Tara. I am going to tell you about my reflection. I have just finished it finally - Have a look!  I am really proud of it. I hope you enjoy it. Today at Enrich we played a Wilson game. It was really hard because you had to work as a team to jump together to get into a hoop.  Sometimes people were jumping before Katie clapped, so you had to go back to the start! It taught us good strategies on working together and it was really good to warm our brains up this morning!!

My mask made from clay

Today I  got to work with clay. I was making a mask out out of clay. First Katie cut the clay then we had to flatten the clay out. Next, Katie put newspaper under the clay to give the mask a 3D shape. Then we had to soften the face. After that I made the pieces to attach to my mask - eyebrows, eyes, pupils, ears, nose and lips.  We had to score these pieces and then score the part of the mask where we wanted to attach it.  My mask will be left to dry now.  I might try to do a coil pot next time.